Washington Notebook: U.S. trade delegation arrives in S. Africa

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

A group of business leaders led Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is in South Africa for three days to explore investment opportunities. The group, which includes senior executives from Boeing, Electro-Motive Diesel Inc. (the diesel-electric locomotive manufacturing subsidiary of Caterpillar), FedEx Express, Walmart and General Electric, participated Monday in a U.S.-South Africa Business Summit in Johannesburg. Clinton is meeting with South African government and industry leaders as part of a regular series of meetings to enhance economic and political ties between the two nations. The heads of the Overseas Private Investment Corp., the Export-Import Bank, and the U.S. Trade and D...